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4 Information Sciences
Pages 45-53

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From page 45...
... Collectively the work addresses technical challenges in the use of sensors, communication, and computing to provide the soldier with new levels of tactical intelligence and the automated support needed for missions. Areas of specific endeavor include language translation, information extraction, semantic analysis, understanding of human trust networks, fusion of conflicting information, integration of video and text analytics, anomaly detection, reasoning under uncertainty, robotic control and path planning, and models of cognition and tactical decision making.
From page 46...
... This research focuses on how to manage information dissemination across constrained channels based on the trade-off between size and accuracy. Rather than posing the task as a constrained optimization problem, the proposed approach implements a fuzzy logic model in order to include model uncertainty or fluidity in the attributes.
From page 47...
... This research focused on fusing multiple inconsistent and potentially conflicting information sources. The work treated inputs as propositions with truth-values and used subjective logic in a manner that took into account prior experience with the sources.
From page 48...
... While this problem is of significant importance, it was unclear what level of computational efficiency was added through the episodic memory consolidation approach vis-à-vis simply devoting additional computational resources to the problem directly. It was not readily apparent how the approach is distinct from traditional work-stealing methods for background processing during low computational loads.
From page 49...
... The use of long-wave infrared polarimetry to facilitate discrimination of manmade and nonmanmade objects was another thrust in this research. The sensor and data fusion focus was largely on approaches for dynamically adapting information to situational changes and appears to comprise engineering advances as opposed to exploring fundamental science.
From page 50...
... The work is being published in high-quality journals and shows a comprehensive understanding of research conducted elsewhere and how the ARL research fits into the broader research landscape. The cross-modal face recognition work represents an excellent example of an appropriate applied research topic for ARL given the mission need for such an approach.
From page 51...
... Across the entire research endeavor, access to actual field data would further enrich the research effort and would help to distinguish the work from that in the outside research community. In the area of dynamically adapting information to situational changes, for example, research in the commercial applications arena focuses on certain performance objectives that do not meet the requirements in the military context.
From page 52...
... In a similar vein, the significant use of radio equipment indicates adequate infrastructure to support the research effort. Two of the projects employed computer simulations to generate input data that were used to demonstrate improved receiver processing techniques.
From page 53...
... Importantly, especially among the junior researchers, there was a good awareness of external research and connections to professional organizations and outside research communities; these are important for maintaining and growing the technical quality of the research. The research results are appearing in respected conference proceedings and archival journals.


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